00:00In the rugged mountains of 1869 China, a French explorer uncovered a secret that would enchant
00:11the world. David discovered a giant panda and introduced it to the Western world.
00:21Shortly after David sent the panda's skin and bones to Paris, French zoologist Alphonse
00:31Milne Edwards officially classified the species as Ayloropoda melanoluca. Ayloropoda melanoluca,
00:38meaning black and white cat foot.
00:39In 1929, the Roosevelt brothers became the first Westerners to hunt a panda.
00:54In 1936, American explorer Ruth Harkness captured a baby panda named Sue Lynn in Sichuan and smuggled
00:59it to the US. This sparked the panda cult, but between 1936 and 1946,
01:1014 pandas were taken from China by foreigners. In 1936, a US panda lived at the Brookfield
01:17Zoo in Chicago. Many pandas dying in captivity due to poor understanding of their needs.
01:25In 1946, China closed its borders to foreign panda exploitation.
01:30In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund or WWF was founded, adopting the panda as its logo.
01:361972, pandas became ambassadors in panda diplomacy.
01:43Ling Ling and Xing Xing gifted to America, blending politics and protection.
01:49In 2016, the IUCN downgraded them from endangered to vulnerable,
01:53after numbers rose to one. As of 2024, total population is approximately 2,657.
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